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Prt%iHit Trump Frr.m Rrookirn to San Francisco and Hack.New York fcun.Adrisn Hitt, o( Bholcs, Martin county, or Ind., sat near the kitchen etore in the Wli fourth atory of a tenement, 843 Henderson wJl street, Jersey City, last night, and told aj). about bit Just completed tramp to San UI)( Francisco and back. He is a ruddy-faced ha, Uooster. His hair has not been cut (or four months, and his untrimmed reddish j, beard straggles aimlessly over his face He bad on a pair of Mg bootc, a ready- ,(,t made dark suit, and a dark blue flannel .Jr( shirt with bright yellow lacings. His blue eyeswereclear.bU complexion fair, and wr be talke'd like a man elated with new sue- CM cess. lh,“Bee these shoes, he began. I walked itJ to Ban Francisc and back with them on, j„ and they never were half soled once. I cb am roiug to put them in a gists case for uu f | future ages.” heiHe puttied out a pair of wide brogans. de They could not have been half ailed. There ha waa nothing to tack a half sole on to. The of upper part of the uppers were tied to the uu aeries of holes tuat constituted thetole by to it latlice work of leather strimrs, mi adjust* du ed as to leave a separate compartment for tie each toe and lots of room for the big toe cb ai.d the heel. They looked like Pompeiian thi sandals with modem bullous. by'T’m from Indiana, he went on. ' I'm au from Buoles, Martin county, Indiana. I ac live there when I'm home. I was born co there thirty three year* ago, and 1 know pi every bidy all around there I’m an In* pr 1 I ventor, too. Tbat'a my business. I invent. ri{ I’ve iuvented lota of tbiugs, and I’m goit g to invent a lot more now that I've mide j, aome money on my walk. Me aud a friend ,,r of mine is going to set up an inventors' |,j , shop at 48 Ann street. There'a nothing of the kind In the world now. We are going () to take Inventions that ain't qui c invented° 1 people have things they wnut invented. T! Me and my friend will do it. 8o far I’ve ti, invented a mower, ironer. soldering iron, ^ buggy and a few other things. I got them a, patented, but they don't pay very well just c* now. I can engrave, too. I made all the at engravings in my books. One thing I in* Sl| vented is a buggy with only one shaft, v That patent's for sale. i,When O'Leary tried to walk in England without drinking, I thought I could do as well as he did, for I never drank any whisky in my life. I haven’t smoked either, tho igh I do take a chew for comfo't sometimes. Terrenes McManus, of Sexton, Indiana, bantered me to wa'lc from I p New York to San Francisco and back. I Bl told him I wouldn’t do it for nothing. Terrence is a man of considerablei.5to take Invention* that ain't qui e invented ii yet and finish inv ■ tiling them. I/»ta lt;tinni-Ii-teittiff.tnInr.n-r.ntontnloidroluifOfataiproperty. and tie ottered to put up f2 000 against my patents aud a little land 1 had. 1 tookhitu uu. andon June 18th I went over th**nr iidlie••Ii\\inorIr.IV.aiInInfitorht?chacid*MktBrooklyn Bridge and started. I wasn’t In very good health then. I weighed 114 uounds; 1 weigh 140 now.It was in the bargain that 1 wasn't to take along any clothes | ^ except those I had on, nnd I wasn't to take any money either. ILsidts. I had to carreatc I•tfalt;trinaiinry twenty pounds weight. A bright idea struck iue, and 1 wrote four little books of I lInk*in 4. I wrote the poems and engraved ju the books myself. Here's a picture of me I tt I told, too. It roats 10 cents here. I charged a quarter In Wyoming Pretty, near every saloon and post-office in Wyoming bai this picture stuca up. I fee! proud over it, even if it does look like a bandit.lhVi0eldIt aint my fault that my picture looks that way. It's the fsu'.t of the chisel 1 engraved with. I sold over 200U of them and my books, llers's a biok of mv poems. 2 I'll rea l yon some. Here's one about Jo- h seph—the Bible Joseph, 1 mean-that hadty.pp-ie-ea-cs-IIus*tolidjn*the patchwork cost:Joseph's goat. mO wasn't Joseph's coat quite funny?Hade of spotted cloth aud lined with so k a-Amfln ufo days of Jacob, wheu they weut to amaihc*,iisicpri•*They put uu sackcloth and bathed their hand* inac-ashes.When I start'd I felt like fighting. I | u was kind of nasty and quarrelsome; nut 1 feel first*rate now. 1 can get al mg with anybody. 1 got along all right till I struck th- plains. I walkid along on the vails of |1 the railroads, and h*d a good tl*«»e. 1 wasjjjjl I irolnp jO'lirk some cowboys#at Kills, Kan.,ILy. but I didn’t. They behaved. At tirst theyinddo-said I was a lost man from some traveling I combination, but 1 felt gpod then. 1 1 * told tiose cowboys that I would knock two of them down last er than • the otsier two couldsateraub-anivean-ith*,ofrailverpick them up. Then they respected menight I'd sleep on the ground. Hnvder. referee, went along, lie rode inibe car*. bad a tine time, and felt good. I'd walk all dav ai d sell niv book at towns, and aItheHad theI me wastaililrbPtll-from one station to another and saw that I walked. McManus had lilm go along U» see that it was all square. Borne days he would walk with tn« to pats away time.••We two took a short cut back of the Klk Mountain, in Wyoming. It waa one of the Aral nights he was out with me. We built a fire and fell asleep. He got up in the nlgnt and wakened me.•••Who lives here?' be said.• 'Nobody ■ says I.~ terI. 1That's a_ Whose dog is that?’*• Tbit ain’t any dug,’ saya I.£*1 silver-tailed bear/For there eat a bear on the other sid* »»d 0[ the flre, watching n». Snyder wanted Jo® I to trv to snoot tb* bear with a 22 calibre '*y. revolver b. had. I wouldn't let him try. Iex5lnorktrr InIplerailiad.BeRia.rerelog.notiere the de? ,nb* i delews (OR. Ai-ujce“Iteru-itireCOD-rela-didn't hav. any trouble that way when I waa alone. Ol coarse, I had to sleep on the plain*, but 1 built a tire around me and wolvea would not cross that.I gut U. 2ir. Frscsbco on September 24th. and got my $2 U» I atayed there twenty-one day a end bad a good 'itu., McM.nu* wanted to bet ait tlier 83 OX) tb.t 1 conld not walk back. I bad to walk .tleast thirty mt lee every day, and he thought tb. cold wea'hrr would knock me. I lookhim up, .tortiog back on October 16th. It was tougher on the way back, on account of the cohl. but I bad got hardened and didn't mind it. I wore the umt batter-out pants, blue shirt, b!a* coat, and there ■hoes on th. way baca a. when I .carted. Really, though. I didn't mind tbe cold hardly any. The coldest day the groundbl Wyoming was fro*. inches, but I built a big fire and tbawed it out. Tbut ■tb. reason my beard lsu'1 the earns length around. My pacxagt of book* caught on fire that night andall . _____burnt of! port ofmy sides, tbay’ll grow out again, though. 1 got along ail right after that, and Ilat ni*bt I went over to tbe Brooklyn Bridie where 1 started from. I feel flne.now, andI amba,U,£!01 am going to lecture, too.to pitch into my inventing
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Macon Weekly Telegraph and Messenger
Macon, Georgia, US
Fri, Jan 23, 1885
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